The Simon Express fleet is built around late-model Freightliner Cascadia tractors with Detroit DD15 engines and automatic transmissions, paired with Utility trailers and Carrier reefers. Every unit runs full telematics through iBright and Lynx Fleet. Air-ride suspension, plate floors, maintained on a strict PM schedule.
The Cascadia is the most fuel-efficient over-the-road tractor in the country, and that math compounds when you run it 48 states. Our fleet runs late-model Cascadias with the Detroit DD15 engine and an automatic transmission. The drivers like the cab. The accountants like the MPG. Everybody wins.
53-foot Utility reefer trailers with stainless or aluminum plate floors, air-ride suspension, and tandem-slide. Carrier reefer units, regularly serviced, regularly downloaded. We don't let a unit on the road if its temp record isn't clean.
Every tractor and every trailer is connected through iBright and Lynx Fleet telematics. Live tractor telematics, live reefer telematics, live HOS clock. When you ask "where's my load?" — we answer in seconds, not minutes. When the temperature drifts, the reefer talks to dispatch before the driver picks up the phone.
Forward-looking radar and camera, automatic emergency braking, lane-departure warning, side-object detection — every truck, no exceptions. Drivers are scored monthly on a real safety scorecard, not a guess. Annual training. Quarterly refreshers. We pay for safety because cheap insurance doesn't exist.